UK’s biggest solar farm will be built between Waterlooville and Fareham

Changing Fields

CHANGING: Fields viewed from the top of Portsdown Hill will look different once the solar farm is built

Published in the Portsmouth News on 28th December 2013

Story by Elise Brewerton

 

THE biggest solar farm in Britain has been given the go-ahead.

Southwick Estates has got the green light to build a solar farm big enough to power up to 11,000 homes on 200 acres of land between Waterlooville and Fareham.

Nine out of 10 councillors on Winchester City Council’s planning committee supported the proposals which will see a loss of agricultural land which had been farmed by the Cutler family for three generations.

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